Ancient Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient Morals Character Contempt Contempt Private Features Moral Morals Private Wrongs
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time… — J Budziszewski Copy Share Image
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The general idea of universal moral norms is ancient, widespread, and endorsed by practically every moral authority up until late in the modern period.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
